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Please note the Society does not endorse the content of any of these events and courses, but hopes that by providing the links below it is providing a useful service to the respiratory community.
Eighth Basic Bronchsoscopy Course
7 March 2012
Venue: Education Centre, Royal Preston Hospital, Preston
Course organiser: Dr M Munavvar, Consultant Chest Physician, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
This basic one day interactive bronchoscopy course is designed to provide beginners with a firm grounding in the essential principles involved in the practice of bronchoscopy, besides detailed instruction in the correct method of various sampling techniques to increase the diagnostic yield of bronchoscopy.
This course is suitable for Junior SpRs, Senior SHOs, Bronchoscopy Nurses, Technicians and Physiotherapists.
Cost: £275
For more information and to book, contact Heather Adams, Course Administrator on heather.adams@lthtr.nhs.uk or telephone 01772 522189
Short Courses in Allergy - Imperial College London
Imperial College London offer a range of 2 day short courses in Allergy which are available both to students who are enrolled on the MSc in Allergy programme and as stand-alone CPD programmes for GPs, consultants, nurses and all healthcare professionals.
Allergic Airways Disease, 19-20 March 2012
The face--to-face teaching will cover the normal structure and function of the lung and how this is altered by allergic disease.
Rhinitis and Hayfever, 21-22 March 2012
The face-to-face teaching will cover normal nasal physiology and anatomy and how this is altered by allergic disease.
Fees: £350 per module.
For further information and to register for a place please visit: www.imperial.ac.uk/cpd/allergy or contact cpd@imperial.ac.uk
Recent Advances in Tuberculosis
21 March 2012
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, London
This one day conference aims to raise awareness and provide understanding of recent advances in tuberculosis. New information about diagnostic testing for tuberculosis will be provided as well as the National Strain Typing Service. The role of new entrant screening will be discussed and some of the difficult questions in the clinical care of Tuberculosis patients will be answered.
Full programme details and registration are available at www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/rmc02.php or for further information contact Louisa Mason on 020 7290 2984 or respiratory@rsm.ac.uk
Edinburgh Sleep Medicine Course
26 - 30 March 2012
Venue: John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh
Now entering its seventh year, this annual course aims to provide up-to-date information on the theory and practice of sleep medicine including practical experience in the technological aspects of measuring and monitoring sleep. The course is aimed at all professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. This course is open to applicants from all countries. Competence in understanding spoken English is required.
Faculty members include:
- Professor Sir N J Douglas
- Dr R L Riha
- Dr T W Mackay
For more information and to register visit http://www.sleep.scot.nhs.uk/education.html#med
Or contact Mrs Marjorie Vennelle, Department of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA or email m.vennelle@ed.ac.uk
RCP/BTS Joint Conference - Asthma: it hasn't gone away
28 March 2012, Royal College of Physicians, London
This one day conference for general and respiratory physicians, as well as interested allied health professionals, will examine the importance of asthma in the UK in 2012. Clinicans and scientists at the forefront of asthma research will give presentations on topics including:
- the origins of asthma including the epidemiological and genetic causes of the asthma epidemic
- the importance of childhood asthma for adult disease
- controversial areas of the asthma guidelines
- airway inflammometry
- the importance of distinguishing asthma from COPD
- the diagnosis and management of severe asthma including novel therapies such as bronchial thermoplasty.
Conference organiser: Dr Andrew Menzies-Gow, Royal Brompton Hospital, London
For more information contact the Royal College of Physicians on 020 3075 1252. Email conferences@rcplondon.ac.uk or visit http://events.rcplondon.ac.uk/details.aspx?e=2632
6th World International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) 2012 conference
25–28 April 2012
Venue: Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Submit an abstract for the 6th World International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) 2012 conference, to be held in Edinburgh 25–28 April. The abstract deadline is 11/01/12.
Clinical, service implementation and new ideas for research.
For information and details of prizes visit www.ipcrg-pcrs2012.com
Course on Safety in Chest Drain Insertions
8 May 2012
Venue: PostGraduate Centre, Maidstone Hospital, Hermitage Lane, Maidstone, Kent ME16 9QQ
The course includes lectures and hands on skills workshop sessions. Lectures cover basic technique, demonstrations of Thoracic Ultrasound, safe techniques of chest drain insertions, Pleural Aspirations and drainages as well as long term indwelling Pleural catheters. Illustrative cases of Pleural Efusions, Pnemothrax, identifying liver, spleen, heart, kideneys, diaphram. Aspiration of pleural fluid, insertion of chest drains in the respiratory ward under ultrasound guidance, HD video demonstration in stepwise manner, mannikins, phantoms and models to practice safer chest drain insertions. Demonstration of Seldinger, Pig Tail and surgical chest drains.
Workshop exclusively includes TUS examination of about 8 healthy volunteers and patients with lung pathologies for hands on experience under trainer supervision.
The course is aimed at Respiratory and Acute Medicine, ITU Consultants, Trainees and middle grade doctors. No previous experience necessary of chest ultrasound or chest procedures.
Course fee: £235 for Trainees, SAS and Specialist Registrars. £255 for Consultants
To book a place contact: Celia Cusworth, Manager, PostGrad Centre Tel 01622 224459
Email: celia.cusworth@nhs.net
Website: www.thoracicultrasound.com
Birmingham Tuberculosis Management & Control Course
9-11 May 2012
A 2 1/2 day intensive course in Tuberculosis Management and Control.
A multidisciplinary course for Consultants, Specialist Registrars, other doctors, TB nurses and specialists, to be held at the Birmingham & Midland Institute from 9 to 11 May 2012.
Course fee: £250
The course has been approved for 15 CPD credits by the Royal College of Physicians.
For futher details including the provision programme and an application form, please see the course website (BCC Training): www.bcctraining.co.uk
Course organiser:
Mary Mannion
Department of Infection & Tropical Medicine
Heartlands Hospital
Bordesley Green East
Birmingham
B9 5SS
Tel 0121 424 2357 Email mary.mannion@heartofengland.nhs.uk
COPD Commissioning
10 May 2012, London
Chaired by Kevin Holton, Head of Respiratory, Diabetes and Liver Programmes Department of Health this one day conference provides an important update on the role of Clinical Commissioning Groups and Clinical Senates with a focus on commissioning for high quality outcomes in COPD care. Professor Sue Hill Joint National Clinical Lead for Respiratory Programme The National Strategy for COPD will open the conference focusing on what lies ahead in COPD commissioning and making effective use of the COPD commissioning packs due to be released this year.
For more information and to book your place visit: http://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/copd_commissioning or email kerry@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk
Discount for BTS members:
A 15% discount is available to BTS members by quoting ref: hcuk15bts when booking.
COPD8
20-22 June 2012, International Convention Centre, Birmingham
COPD8 is an international conference aimed at the breadth of the COPD spectrum from basic science through to clinical practise and what people living with the condition need and want.
COPD8 will provide new and interesting information for all delegates and encourage lively debate and discussion. Providing high quality evidence-based health care for the 21st century presents particular challenges wherever we are based in the world and in the UIK there are many national policies and initiatives which will ensure that COPD is both recognised and embedded in the future.
This conference provides:
- An accredited education and training conference in COPD
- A state of the art scientific conference in COPD
- Clearly identified tracks for scientists, clinicians, nurses, physiotherapists, clinical physiologists and other health care professionals interested in COPD in both primary and secondary care settings
- An opportunity to present original research and to discuss findings with other international experts in the field
- The production of a conference specific publication
For more information please contact COPD8 Event Managers at:
Executive Business Support Limited
City Wharf
Davidson Road
Lichfield, Staffordshire
WS14 9DZ
Tel: 0845 838 6038
Email: info@copdconferences.org
website: www.copdconferences.org
European Society of Thoracic Imaging, 20th Annual Meeting
22-24 June 2012, Westminster, London
Interstitial Lung Disease. Lung Cancer: Diagnosis, Staging & Screening. Pulmonary Vascular Disease. Infections in Immunocompromise. Cardiac Imaging. Radiofreqency Ablation. Microwave Ablation. Hands-on Lung & Cardiac Workshops.
Call for papers opens September 2011.
For more information and to book visit: www.esti2012.org
7th 2012 International Symposium on Cough
5-7 July 2012, Imperial College, London
This International Symposium entitled: Taming Chronic Cough, is organised by Professor Fan Chung in memory of Professor John Widdicombe. This will be a series of state-of-the-art lectures on the science, pathology and treatment of chronic cough by international scientists and clinicians, with opportunity for lots of interactions and discussion. There is also an opportunity to present posters.
Further information from Karina Dixon, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London. k.dixon@imperial.ac.uk
British Association of Lung Research Summer Conference 2012
11 – 13 July 2012
Venue: University of Southampton, Southampton